A Rockin’ Plea

Derek K. Miller of Penmachine.com and the author of the current Windows Weekly theme begs Paul and me not to replace his tune with former Windows chief, Jim Allchin’s, Enigma Machine.

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You should keep the current theme just because of this video. Do you see Jim Allchin going to such efforts?! :PAlso Leo – I know I've said this a few times before, but just to let you know that your RSS feed still seems to be shortened post, not full. I know you tried fixing it, but it would be great if you could try again. Many thanks.

Theo, you can get a full post RSS feed at:http://leoville.com/feed/That works fine for me in Google Reader.

I promise that if I'm actually supposed to make a heavy-metal theme tune, I'll practice first.

You mean Paul and I 😉

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